On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 5:23 PM, Leidle, Rob <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you for the reply. I would think that is how it would work. However, > isn¹t that script starting the secondary-namenode service when ha is > ³disabled²? That¹s the behavior I am seeing. I have no configured for HA > yet secondary namenode is being configured and started by the puppet > scripts.
I think you're being confused by the terminology here. Seconadary name node is a very old piece of HDFS and it has little to do with HA. When HA was implemented in HDFS a notion of a stand-by namemode was introduced. With that a need for a secondary namenode disappeared. Thanks, Roman.
